Carbon Cycle
The world ocean acts as a massive carbon sink. What's it called when it absorbs CO2 from the atmosphere and dissolves it into seawater as other compounds?
What is Ocean Uptake
How many steps are in the Nitrogen Cycle?
What is 5 cycles?
What is the main reservoir for the phosphorus cycle?
What is Sedimentary Rock/Sediments
When bodies of water are heated by the suns energy and turns into gas/ vapor, what is this called?
What is Evaporation
All livings things need N for DNA and amino acids to make what?
What is proteins
When plants and animals die and are broken down by fungi and bacteria?
What is Decomposition
What is the main reservoir of nitrogen?
What is the Atmosphere
The chemical breakdown of rocks due to exposure to environmental factors are called what?
What is Weathering
what is happening when water evaporate from the leaves of plants through tiny holes?
Animals and plants releases stored energy for biological processes. What process is very quick and known for CO2?
What is Cellular Respiration
What process does coal and fossil fuels come from?
What is Fossilization
What is the conversion of NH4 into Nitrite and then Nitrate by soil bacteria?
What is Nitrification
Phosphate Ions are released into what during decomposition?
What is Soil
what is the process by which water vapor in the air is changed into liquid water?
What is Condensation
Which one of the cycles was the longest?
What is Phosphorous Cycle
Which process is the longest in the carbon cycle?
What is Fossilization
what is the process of N2 being converted biologically available to NH3 or NH4 by bacteria or root nodules of leguminous plants?
What is Nitrogen Fixation
What is it called when a sedimentary rock undergoes a geological process that moves it up onto the land?
What is Geologic Uplift
What is it called when the water or the amount of water that falls to the earth as hail, mist, rain, sleet, or snow?
What is Precipitation
What are fossil fuel?
what is Hydrocarbons
What is the photosynthesis formula?
What is 6H20+CO2 --> 6H20 + CO2
List one Human Impact on the Nitrogen Cycle?
- Ammonia Volatilization
- Climate
- Leaching And Eutrophicatioon
What is the excess of N and P from fertilizers that fuel algae growth?
What is Eutrophication
What is the process of a liquid moving slowly through a substance that has very small holes in it?
What is Percolation
What is the Fossil Fuel Formula?
What is Fossil Fuel + O2 -> CO2 + H20